http://www.fed-soc.org/publications/detail/boon-or-bane-for-technological-innovation-software-patents-podcast Although pure software patents are only a couple decades old, they have become the focus of a heated innovation policy debate. On the one hand, new technological innovation once imagined only as science fiction is now a commonplace feature of our lives — tablet computers, smart phones, wireless telecommunication, cloud computing, and streaming television, [...]